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	<description>Next Steps, NFP, will work to ensure that mental health consumers/survivors have a major voice in the development and implementation of health care, mental health, housing and social policies at the state and local levels, empowering people to recover and lead a full life in the community.</description>
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		<title>post that I never posted</title>
		<link>http://nextstepsnfp.org/blog/friedman/post-that-i-never-posted/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 17 May 2012 19:50:27 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred Friedman</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I have not written in here for a long time. During that time, I have drafted some posts but for one reason or another have not posted them. They are not perfect and I post them with some trepidation. I wrote this last month. This is a very difficult post/email for me to have to &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>And now, a message from our Web site sponsor&#8230;</title>
		<link>http://nextstepsnfp.org/blog/and-now-a-message-from-our-web-site-sponsor/</link>
		<comments>http://nextstepsnfp.org/blog/and-now-a-message-from-our-web-site-sponsor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Jan 2012 16:49:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[From WordPress, where our Web site is built and maintained: You are an agent of change. Has anyone ever told you that? Well, I just did, and I meant it. Normally we stay away from from politics here at the official WordPress project — having users from all over the globe that span the political &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Housecleaning</title>
		<link>http://nextstepsnfp.org/blog/housecleaning/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Nov 2011 23:21:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Gretchen</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, all, You may not know me, but I&#8217;m Gretchen Alder, Next Steps&#8217;s new marketing/graphics/communication/Web site point person. Today I went into the site and cleaned out something like 2,400 posts, most of which, from what I could tell, were spam. However, I couldn&#8217;t go through each one individually, so if you posted something that &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Next Steps Board Meeting &#8211; Sept. 26, 2011  6-8PM</title>
		<link>http://nextstepsnfp.org/press-room/next-steps-board-meeting-sept-26-2011-6-8pm/</link>
		<comments>http://nextstepsnfp.org/press-room/next-steps-board-meeting-sept-26-2011-6-8pm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Sep 2011 01:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News and Events]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The meeting will be held at: Access Living 115 W. Chicago Chicago, IL Phone-in number to call, if you can&#8217;t make the meeting, is: 866-906-0123 passcode: 2571948#]]></description>
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		<title>We Deserve Better</title>
		<link>http://nextstepsnfp.org/blog/french/we-deserve-better/</link>
		<comments>http://nextstepsnfp.org/blog/french/we-deserve-better/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Jul 2011 03:14:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>AJ French</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lead organizer, Southern and Central Illinois]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Greetings!  It&#8217;s been awhile since I blogged on Next Steps website.  No, I have not resumed my former position as the Lead Organizer for Central and Southern Illinois.  But there is something weighing on my heart that I wanted to write about.  I asked Fred Friedman if I could make this post and he agreed. Earlier this summer, &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Freedom Self-Advocacy Training &#8211; June 16 &amp; 17</title>
		<link>http://nextstepsnfp.org/events/free-two-day-freedom-self-advocacy-training/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 20:00:50 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Susan Roger, a nationally known leader in mental health recovery, will be presenting a two day training on Freedom Self-Advocacy on June 16th and June 17th. This is a free training but registration is required.  For further information call Next Steps at 773 274-2150]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Health Rally Day  &#8211; May 12, 2011</title>
		<link>http://nextstepsnfp.org/blog/mental-health-rally-day-may-12-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://nextstepsnfp.org/blog/mental-health-rally-day-may-12-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:11:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Mental Health Rally Day will be held on May 12, 2011.  Events are being planned in Chicago at the Thompson Center and in Springfield.]]></description>
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		<title>Mental Health Consumer Forum &#8211;    March 24, 2011</title>
		<link>http://nextstepsnfp.org/blog/mental-health-consumer-forum-march-24-2011/</link>
		<comments>http://nextstepsnfp.org/blog/mental-health-consumer-forum-march-24-2011/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 21 Mar 2011 17:57:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Blog]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[A mental health consumer forum is set to take place on Thursday March 24 at 12:30PM in the Social Hall of Emanuel Congregation &#8211; 5959 N. Sheridan.  Lunch will be served at Noon. This event is coordinated by ONE &#8211; Organization of the Northeast. The agenda calls for the creation of a Consumer Bill of Rights &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Health &amp; Family Services Director proposes changes to medications covered through medicaid</title>
		<link>http://nextstepsnfp.org/press-room/health-family-services-director-proposes-changes-to-medications-covered-through-medicaid/</link>
		<comments>http://nextstepsnfp.org/press-room/health-family-services-director-proposes-changes-to-medications-covered-through-medicaid/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Mar 2011 03:36:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[News and Events]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[Press Room]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[Julie Hamos, the director of Health and Family Services is proposing to change the medications that are available to Medicaid receipients.  Her plan would limit Medicaid receipients to access to medications that are only available in generic varieties.  We are asking our consumers and supporters to call Director Hamos at  312 &#8211; 793-4792     and let her know that &#8230;]]></description>
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		<title>Arizona Grieving</title>
		<link>http://nextstepsnfp.org/blog/friedman/tragedy-in-arizona/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Mar 2011 17:55:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Fred Friedman</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Head organizer]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I have not written in here for a while. In part this was due to my illness, in part because I did not know what to say. I join the nation in grieving the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and other Arizonans. I grieve any act of violence perhaps in part because my brothers and &#8230;]]></description>
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